At about 9:15, I posted this on Twitter:
When is this freaking basketball game going to start? I’m WAITINGGG…
I was sitting there at the bar at Yesterday’s trying to make my pint last, and not succeeding. Shortly thereafter, Mayor Bob Coble responded thusly via Facebook:
I agree…
Something else Mayor Bob and I agree about!
Minutes after that, I headed home. I’m watching/listening to this exciting game as I type.
But I’ve got to tell you, I am FED UP with big sporting events being scheduled for the convenience of the Left Coast. I mean, it’s just so arbitrary — why should it be at THEIR convenience, and not ours? It’s not like, by doing this, it’s makes it watchable for everybody. It doesn’t help Burl out in Hawaii…
Who cares if people in California miss the start of the game? Isn’t it a bigger concern that everybody in Washington and New York and everywhere else East of the Mississippi where most of the country lives is unable to function at work tomorrow? You want Obama, a huge hoops fan, not to have a good night’s rest? The guy’s got his finger on the button! Not a good idea!
I’ve just had it with this, and I don’t know why everybody else puts up with it.
WOW, what a game!
Now, I’ve got to settle down from THAT before I can go to sleep…
It’s so late, it’s not even March any more…
Great game. I was praying for that last shot to drop.
Yes, I stayed up for it. Yes, I’m still up. I’m still upset that it took over 2-1/2 hours to play 40 minutes of basketball.
Is there some sort of sporting event going on?
It was such a thrilla, it was a shame one of them had to lose.
I couldn’t agree more with your post. But why couldn’t the game have been played Saturday night, when it didn’t matter what time it started or ended. Of course, that would mean the semi-finals would have to be played on Thursday night. The same logic applies to the Super Bowl…why Sunday night when it could be played on Saturday night with no national hangover on a workday. The allure of the filthy lucre has overwhelmed common sense.
Y’all see that? Burl missed the whole thing.
I don’t know what it’s like now, but when Burl and I were in high school out there, they showed network TV shows a week later. I don’t know whether they were shipping the videotapes out to the islands by slow boat, or what, but that’s the way they worked it.
Of course, this was in the days of sailing ships…